Cell animation

Cell animation was invented by Earl Hurd in 1914. Cell animation is an animation technique where each frame is hand drawn. For the animation to work, you'll need to draw the outline of your image on the front of a cell and on the back you'll need to colour it.

This technique was used for the first half of the 20th century until it was later replaced by cellulose acetate. This video shows you how to make cell animation and this video tells you the history of cell animation. Two well known examples of cell animation is the movie called The Black Cauldron and Disney's Robin Hood. 

Advantages and disadvantages of cell animation.

Advantages:

• The quality of the frames are a lot clearer and higher quality
• You can make it very detailed

Disadvantages:

• It is very time consuming as every frame must be made over again.
• It can be very expensive